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I went back to NLB about 10 years later and many things had changed. you all for the comments and stories. Shirley Dooley Nesbitt and her husband Rod were running the place by then, but still every once and a while old man Dooley would wander the store thanking everyone for the job they were doing. We used to shop at Dooleys. across from the Blue Chip Stamp redeemable store. that place had it all we lived in lakewood on candlewood by the tracks 1956, Dooleys was cool work there in the late 1970s love there hot dogs and ice cream first job out of high school. I used to play video games at Redd Foxx Lanes. That was a lot of fun. thanks for letting me add my memories to yours. hi to you i work there to you storys are great. Awesome to know you have fond memories too! Blvd. What a great place it was to be a kid. Company Profile, Contact information, Current and former Employee directory, Corporate history, state/tax IDs. all the wheels looked like a roller coaster fast ride. I am having a blast reading all the memories of Dooleys; it really was a treasure. P.S. Why were they so good? I said, Marris pizza & By the doll collection. Your right.my friend and i would sit on our skateboards (steel wheels) hook our legs to each other and go down the hill they called it (suicide hill) hit the grass at the bottom just before the pond..and yes the rec area had a bumper pool table inside we would play.and that pond had more fish in it big blue gills drop a line and it was hit then.we would walk over to Thriftys for a 5 cent scoop of ice cream remember that? It was at Dooleys where I met my future wife. It was on Atlantic a half a block from Jordan. I remember Dooleys!! I remember the Lumberjack and the big Sherman Williams sign covering the globe or something like that. Dave there will never be another Dooleys, right? He was retired of course. We should all feel blessed. Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? I love all these recollections, its like all of you said everything. . And I remember Dooleys too! Phone Number: See available information. Bought my 45s there. Long Beach Fireman's Historical Museum Photographs Collection. I used to wade into it, starting at the top of the hill where the little brook would flow down into it; cut my foot once from toe to heel when I came out of it, and I didnt even feel it. Personally, I havent been back in the Long Beach area since 2001. My mom used to buy her craft supplies there and we would buy jeans, t-shirts at the Levi section. Dooley's Hardware store fire, 5075 Long Beach Blvd Calisphere California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections Long Beach Fireman's Historical Museum Photographs Collection Dooley's Hardware store fire, 5075 Long Beach Blvd Image / Dooley's Hardware store fire, 5075 Long Beach Blvd All Addresses (1) Family. Who is your brother? those dolls were mrs dooleys doll collection. . Oh, and they also sold hardware. i grew up in north long beach, graduated jordan 1967 and remember all those great places. Always crowded, full of people. the guy was always singing Don Hos Tiny Bubbles no matter when you went. I would have gone to Jordan H.S. great memories there! Good post kathy lowery. To my recollections Scherer Park was in Bixby Knolls. There was a Taco Bell in that area. Login; Business Contacts & Backgrounds. Playing Asteroids at Red Fox Lanes. where you would sit in a spaceship box with a prong on the end and move it up and down and sideways and try to light up all the cities on the map with the prong before time ran out. My Home Town Harbor City Los Angeles County For about the same amount of years. My sister was very mad especially after I made the burn thumb to her. One of the best days was Sunday, when they served lunch in the kitchen upstairs. Get free access to the complete judgment in DOOLEY'S HARDWARE MART v. TRIGG on CaseMine. I loved reading these comments. I dont believe I remember you Jared but there were a lot of people I didnt know that lived around there. yea mrs. Anderson was a peach of a lady my mom had a weekly credit with her she would send me to buy bread and lunch meat and peeny candy for me.and each friday i would go pay her she had a little book with how much we owed (thoose days are gone) we spent a lot of time on the railroad bridge and tracks sliding down on cardboard. remember the middle building and on the top of it it a atlas of the world and above it was a gallon of sherman paint spilling paint all over the globe and it had floresent lights that glowed at night. Dooleys really did make my life better. Concerts at the Long Beach auditorium? And looking back those were the best days of my life. I think I might have filled out an application for Dooleys, but ended up flippinf burgers at Carls Jr on Atlantic and 37th Street instead. Dooleys had cheap hotdogs and it was a great place to go. They also gave away stuff when you filled up your tank and Marris Pizza on LB Boulevard was the place to go if you wanted to write on the walls, or on the tables. Richard. L.B. I also remember your dad Bill as the appliance dept. Really good memories. Again, Im 64 and Im a professional businessman who has no interest in wasting my time, nor yours. Store located in the 5000 block of Long Beach Boulevard. The playlists were free to take home, so I would have a new one each week, and track my favorite songs to see how popular they were. YOu might have sold some 45s to me! You are a good writer, Jules. was just across the isle. I remember it fondly. Great chili dogs. Loved Dooleys; got my first baseball mitt there. It has changed a lot when I was a kid, I used to sit by the pond, and watch boys ride their bikes down the hill and right into it in the summer. I remember just staring at the Lumberjack. I havent been out that way in years. reminiscence. : poorly located hydrant, : Oil wells, Cameron Pl. We knew that place is the Riverbed. Mrs. Trigg appealed, claiming title to the one-foot strip by adverse possession, estoppel, and agreed boundary. I noticed your response is several years old, so I doubt that youll read this comment (I just found this story, thanks to my sister). All before sexual harassment came along. In later years I was sad to see it leave. My brother now lives on Zane. RIP, Dooleys!\r\r(ALL COPYRIGHTS ACKNOWLEDGED.) I lived in N LB from 1985-1990. i was always fascinated by the conveyer belt that stock came down from above on. Now 71 live in montana. Dooley's Hardware Mart filed as an Articles of Incorporation in the State of California and is no longer active. her collection of dolls & tea cups were exquisite. Any one please. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Dooley's Hardware Mart (personified here as Dooley), the owner of Lot 5, obtained judgment and $40 damages against Dorice Trigg, the owner of Lot 6, enjoining her from using a strip of Lot 5, 94 feet long and one foot wide. All the stories here remind me of so much more out that way. I remember so many people there like Ruben Macli, warehouse manager North building and Bill Starr , and June Ricks and Hal in sreening, but most of I remember meeting my wife there, Vicky Peters in pullman & Bath, she was amazing. I went to Jane Addames sutters in the gutter. Im 54 years old now and they will never be a time like that again. Miss SoCal so much. Dooley's Hardware store fire, 5075 Long Beach Blvd. I went to Sutter from kindergarten through 6th grade (1966 through 1972 or so)! Fun stuff. California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections. I used to play caroms and do crafts at the little rec center there and they had great swings! Its nice to remember such a unique place, isnt it? I believe the town lasted longer. I used to walk all the way to Dooleys to just look around. Remember Miss Buehl? The subs were the best. We're proud to be a member of the True Value family, and we're here to serve our community. In addition, all pages on Bizapedia will be Great memories. if someone put a dime in it and didnt shake the machine popcorn was left in it and we would come up and shake it and get about 1/5 of a bag for free. I used to go to John Sutter Elementary and would go to Dooleys after school. Dooley had built a concrete block wall on what he thought was or was close to the property boundary with Trigg. How could you know. Does anyone remember The Prince of Wales restaurant ? My husband and I talk about it sometimes. One of my neighbors was killed while she was babysitting her granddaughter and a bullet came through the window during a drive-by and killed her as she sat in her rocking chair. Very cool so you lived on the edge of North Long Beach; a couple of friends of mine lived around that area as well. the romeo family sold it to the paccione family in mid 60s and they dropped the o in the name so it went from romeos to romes. By the parking for teachers that was chained off. This is awesome. App. There is something always kind of special about mom n pop (family owned) places that have a personal homey atmosphere to it. I grew up in North Long Beach, living in a little house ($13,000.00 for a two-bedroom house in the 60s) on Del Amo Boulevard, between Long Beach Boulevard and Atlantic Boulevard. ADDITIONAL LINKS Retailers call them "category killers," saying they kill off competition wherever they go. Chuck, Hi so good to see your name here! I lived at 147 w 52 during the sixties. Wow. Thank you for sharing, also. Nope. There also was this great Italian Delicatessin near Kentucky Fried Chicken, (I cant remember exactly what street it was on).They were called Roma Italian or something. if the 2 comments were talking about the one on atlantic/ the 6000 or 6100 block of altantic it was called romeos and than later changed to romes. After working there 6 months . We need it really bad now. Come in and see us today. It is all gone now. The entire area is a sea of memories. I would also go every Saturday with my dollarallowance to buy a 45 single, making a carefully considered choice from the 93 KHJ radio playlist each time. they used to serve a free lunch to employees on sundays (i think). Oh ya, working in the Garden Dept. Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. I went to those two theaters for all the years that they were around. Grocers, too, are getting into the bigger-is-better act. I grew up on Arbor st. 1977 to 1983. I remember Welchs! Date Created and/or Issued. but dad hoisted them in. Sign above shop charred and twisted from smoke. We hit them up at lunch from Jordan when the line was not too long! Also remember the gas wars on LB Blvd and Del Amo Blvd (I lived a block away from the intersection) I wrote a bit about the drive-ins, I think I called it Halloween at the drive-in. There are some old photos that I found and posted as well. i remember in the middle store food, fishing gear, gifts. blvd. Long Beach Pike Angel Images Chicago Art Film Images Bridge Building Unique Hotels Weird Creatures Aerial Photo Municipal Auditorium and Rainbow Pier Long Beach, CA D David Zach Historic Long Beach, CA . There were some great employees there, Charlie! I didnt care to eat a hot dog for a very long time . Share Park? I lived at 111 W. Delamo, Apt 11, in 1969 when my husband was in the Navy. Dooley's Family Hardware Store Warehouse Grand Opening stephdooley 17 subscribers Subscribe 2K views 11 years ago Dooley's in North Long Beach, 1981. If you are experiencing technical issues, we'd request that you contact Calisphere directly. George/Julie, please let me know if youre still out there on the net. And we would do stupid things out in the parking lot on their bicycles and he would come out the door and tell us to leave. He did a bunch of handy work and got all of his suppies there. It has been very nice to reminisce about days past. Paid $75 for a 1 bedroom apartment. Dooleys Family Hardware Store, theres more, theres more, at Dooleys! Thank you SO much for finding that and sharing it what a treat to remember. Its so sad to see that my old house is gone, and dooleys, but Douglas is still there and still as delicious as I remember! G S A True Value Hardware in Long Beach, CA is your locally owned hardware store. Dehls. If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. Im 64 as I type this and Im computer literate for sure, but Im not on the social network sites, so on and so forth. michaelpoulin@dyingindowney.com Charles Hathaway faved this impact1911 14y Even though I know this is a great and necessary development for North Long Beach, which has become a pretty sad place for me (more on that later), its hard to drive by without thinking of the giant lumberjack keeping watch over good, cheap hotdogs, and everything else you could ask for in a hardware store. also my favorite games were the baseball with ball bearing balls and flappers. I grew up in L.B. I am amazed with all of the customers of Dooleys and their coments about the hot dogs, christmas tree, etc. Current Address: QJDV Long Beach Blvd, Long Beach, CA. Sorry, went off track There was also a buffet restaurant, Cliftons I believe. Oh so much fun we had and we didnt even know it. Wednesday, April 10, 1957 Wad April 10 1957 DOOLEY'S HARDWARE MART 5075 LONG BEACH BLVD NORTH LONG BEACH OUTDOOR LIVING and GARDENING DOOLEY'S BIG ONCE-A-YEAR EVENT! I lived at 147 w 52 during the sixties. 5045 Long Bch Blvd, Long . And the lake at Scherer Park we were told a body was found in it the freezer in the front of Dels where I would pick out my Sidewalk Sundae, and Tom would say, Thatll be 35 dollars, please! Red Fox lanes, where I learned how to bowl and went to league night with my parents a great time! Then my brother would buy our two tickets and we would go into the movie theater with our little brown bags of candy that Mom packed and go find a place and sit down. I used to go to Shady Acres later became a skate park. Hi Kathy, hope youre still out there. Didnt remember about the mac and cheese, I probably would have been chowing on that if I worked there, too. from 60 to 73. My Dad hated to go there because he had to stand in line for a long time. And just for the record, my friends and I used to play hide-and-seek upstairs buy the doll collection and the furniture. Oh and the Long Beach Pike! Best halibut in town. I grew up on Zane st i remember eating chili dogs under the lumberjack when i was a kid i have many fond memories of Dooleys it makes me sad that its gone.I dont live out there anymore so whenever i get a chance to go out there its nice to see Douglas burger is still there down the street. I remember you in furniture office when I worked in credit. a new school at the former Dooley's Hardware at Long Beach Boulevard and Del Amo Street. It would be great to remember some fun and crazy times we had at Dooleys! Hey there young lady. Good memories, I found this site many years after you all did. Rights Information. right before you started. Sure wish someone would find a picture of it. S. Jeffery Hardware Store, Chico, Calif : Franzen Bros. Hardware : Franzen Bros. Hardware : Franzen Bros. Hardware with people, Main Street That stuff like Laff in the Dark and the Voodoo Hut, House of Mirrors, The Rotor , The Scrambler. fishing for blue gill fish in the pond. i saw you mention the boy scout park. Born and raised in LB, and I graduated from Jordan in 75. , It sounds like you have great memories of Dooleys! Such a shame you can never go home again.. Hi Veronica I remember you. I think later, corporations caught on to the one stop shopping experience with Gemco, Target, Walmart.. Im sure that was the idea behind Dooleys. We are sorry, but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. Anyway, it was another Friday night family dinner place for us. I lived next door to N.B. Remember Miss Buehl? Too bad since the area when I grew up seemed to be reasonably safe considering the size of the city. You guys should check out Born and Raised in Long Beach. 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